Because we are
"DREAMING OF A SISTER"
We are taking a "Flying Leap of Faith" and we invite you to join us! We have decided to bring a sister home to Laney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is time to take big steps to making our dreams come true BUT we cannot do it without you!
Our adoption process with Laney took almost 4 years!! Her sister will probably be home with us MUCH SOONER than that long wait. Maybe even within 12 months! The good news is sooner rather than later a little girl will be out of the orphanage, into our loving arms and she will have a family. The challenge... this good news of sooner leaves A LOT less time to save all the money we need. We do have faith we will be able to do what we need to bring her home. One of the ways we are doing this is by putting our faith into this very letter. Truth is… we dislike fundraising. But, we know, in this case, that we must swallow our pride and have the courage to ask others for help. So, in addition to scrimping and saving, we are dollar by dollar fundraising our way to Laney’s sister. So would you consider being a part of something great? As we gear up for some fundraising events?
You may ask why all this fundraising? Some might say “geez, they want to adopt but they can’t afford the adoption”? It’s a fair question… so let us try to answer. Yes… God has set it on our hearts to adopt a sister for Laney. We don’t know her yet, but we dream of her and everyday she is growing in our hearts. We know this is the plan for our family! But, not too many people have the money sitting in their bank account to cover the cost of adoption. Did you know adoption costs between Twenty to Thirty Thousand Dollars!!! Many people ask … "Why does it cost so much?" Believe us we wish it didn’t but wow it sure does! You must pay for so many services. The adoption agency is a service that makes sure you have the mounds and mounds of paperwork just perfect for travel to China, they arrange travel, they schedule all the government appointments, they have staff to help while we are there. We pay the Chinese government fees for all the paperwork they must process. We pay the US government fees for immigration processing, home studies, fingerprints, and tons of forms. Notarizations, certifications, authentications, social workers, agency fees, dossier fees, pre placement fees, government fees and post placement fees. And the list goes on and on. We hope this helps people understand. And we hope everyone knows that we are SO grateful for every person, every family, and every friend that helps along on this journey.
SO we ask you again......Would you consider being a part of something great? Join us for our first fundraising event: A huge tag sale for a cause!
We are working on putting together a giant tag sale to help bring Laney’s sister home to her forever family. We have opened a designated account solely for adoption (Thank you Jo for the 1st deposit into this account J)! This account will be used solely to reach the goal of bringing Laney’s sister home.
SO ARE YOU READY TO DO SOME SUMMER/FALL CLEANING? Do you want to clean out, get rid of, simplify things; well you can do all that while helping our little girl come home. Please consider these things:
· Gather all the things you were considering selling, trading, donating or tossing. Furniture, toys, clothes, household items, electronics (anything really that is in decent selling condition). Make a pile and set it aside. We will make it easy! Drop it off or we can arrange to pick it up and feel good about having a hand in making family dreams come true! We will sell all these items at a giant tag sale later this fall and all the proceeds will go to helping bring Laney’s sister home.
Thank you to those who are already working on:
· selling items on Craig’s list and donating a portion of the proceeds.
· selling items at consignment stores and donating a portion of the proceeds.
· selling old gold jewelry they no longer wear and donating a portion of the proceeds.
· having tag sales in other states and donating a portion of the proceeds.
We have wonderful family and friends working on future fundraisers also. More to come on events like:
· Eat out fundraiser
· Puzzle fundraiser
· Benefit show fundraiser
· Bake sale fundraiser
· Oh and any other fundraiser ideas are welcome!
If we missed any family, friends, coworkers, neighbors please share this.
Lastly thank you for taking the time to consider helping make dreams come true.
Mark, Kelly, Laney (Maui &Tiki too)
Please e-mail, post a comment on our blog or call us if you have any questions.
